Steam Games

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Games from Steam

Many VR games are also sold on Steam – some of them with an Android build that Steam ships for its own headset. AVP Play can download such games from your own Steam purchase and put them on the Vision Pro.

You need the Steam sign-in under Setup.

Showing Steam games

Tick Steam above the game list. You then see:

• games sold on Steam that the project knows (for example Walkabout Mini Golf, Moss, Half-Life: Alyx)
• the Steam games in your account that have an Android build
• other known Steam games with an Android build, marked Not in your Steam account

Installing a Steam game

• Install downloads the game from your Steam account, checks every file, writes a recipe for it and then builds and installs it like any other game.
• Download Only stops after the download.

Such games are usually Untested. They are worth a try – but every verified game needed its own adjustments, so it may not start.

Bought on Steam instead of Meta

If you bought Walkabout Mini Golf or Moss on Steam, choose Purchased from: Steam on the game's page. The Steam version is a separate app with its own saved games.

Half-Life: Alyx, Doom 3, Counter-Strike, Portal, Half-Life 2

These games don't run as Quest games but through their own routes:

• Half-Life: Alyx – the Linux build (about 73 GB) from your Steam purchase. Optionally with a German voice-over (fan mod). Saved games through Steam Cloud. Add-ons from the Steam Workshop: see below.
• Doom 3 and Counter-Strike – the game files from your Steam purchase (or from a folder).
• Portal – the game files from your Steam purchase of Portal (about 5.7 GB, or the folder of a Portal installation that holds portal, hl2 and platform), played through SourceVR, a free Source engine for headsets. On the first start the game's own wizard asks for your gun hand and comfort settings. AVP Play sets two things once: a still picture behind the main menu instead of the camera flight, and portal recursion depth 1 (depth 2 halves the frame rate while you stand in a portal); both can be changed in the game's VR settings. Menus and subtitles follow the language you choose in the game's start window. Voices in German, French, Spanish or Russian are a language download: tick the language on the game's page (86–147 MB, from your own Steam account, which must own Portal). If the install stopped at the check of the game files (hl2), update to AVP Play 1.10.7.
• Half-Life 2 (since AVP Play 1.10.9) – the folders hl2 and platform from your Steam purchase of Half-Life 2 (about 5 GB, or the folder of a Half-Life 2 installation that holds both), played through SourceVR like Portal. On the first start the game's own wizard asks for your gun hand and comfort settings. Menus and subtitles follow the language you choose in the game's start window. Voices in German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian or Korean are a language download: tick the language on the game's page (about 770 MB each, from your own Steam account, which must own Half-Life 2).

On the game's page, You Provide These Files Yourself lists what is missing. Download from Steam fetches it.

Steam Workshop for Half-Life: Alyx

The Steam Workshop is a collection of maps, weapons and other add-ons that players made for Half-Life: Alyx. Since AVP Play 1.10.8 you can bring them to your Vision Pro.

1. Open the Half-Life: Alyx page. Alyx must be installed.
2. Under Steam Workshop, click Browse Workshop …. The Workshop opens inside AVP Play. You don't need to sign in to look around.
3. Open an add-on and click Load into AVP Play. You can also paste a Workshop link or item ID into the field Workshop link or item ID.
4. AVP Play downloads the add-on with your Steam sign-in (from Setup). A collection brings everything in it. Add-ons that the item needs come along by themselves.
5. Then AVP Play copies the add-on to the Vision Pro by itself. You don't need to install the game again.
6. In the game: main menu › Manage Addons, switch the add-on on, then start a game with add-ons.

Remove from List takes an add-on off this Mac. The next copy frees its space on the Vision Pro, and the game removes the rest at its next start.

The same works from AVP Play Remote on the Vision Pro (Remote 1.1 and AVP Play 1.10.10 or newer): see Remote Control.

Privacy

The app asks which games you own on Steam with Valve's own tool (SteamCMD) – at most once a day. No third-party service learns what you own.

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